There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who do not.
I talked about Calyx Institute before which gives unlimited Internet for $41.66 a month (more if you need a hotspot). However, there is a new player in town called Computers 4 People. They have Shield Internet for $14.89/month! I ordered the SIM card Saturday morning, they shipped it out on Monday and had it delivered Continue reading "Cheap Unlimited Internet on T-mobile s Network"
We are currently in the process of upgrading our domain controllers from Windows Server 2016 to Windows Server 2022 and there appears to be some security hardening going on when you upgrade to Windows Server 2022 and are using the built-in Default Domain Controllers Policy. I patched our ADFS servers ending in even numbers this Continue reading "Cannot Start ADFS Service: Error 1297"
End of an era, MDT is no more: https://oofhours.com/2026/01/18/a-complete-history-of-mdt-abridged/. I have a few stories myself regarding Windows OS deployment over my career. I started disk imaging using Norton Ghost back in the late-90s where I used it on my home computer. Fast forward to November 2002 where the hospital I worked at was using MS-DOS Continue reading "Microsoft Deployment Toolkit…
Recently, our SCCM server ran out of disk space. Ran Treesize Pro on the data drive and saw that the BADMIFS folder was 97GB! I would clear the folder and it would quickly grow in size again. In Microsoft Configuration Manager (SCCM), BADMIFS refers to a folder that stores hardware inventory files (MIF files) that Continue reading "Case of the BADMIFS"
Mark Russovich wrote in 2009: duplicate SIDs do not matter for security: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/markrussinovich/the-machine-sid-duplication-myth-and-why-sysprep-matters. Well, 16 years later, duplicate SIDs DO matter for security: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/kerberos-and-ntlm-authentication-failures-due-to-duplicate-sids-76f7394d-c460-4882-9ed1-d27e0960f949.…
I was going back and forth with ChatGPT on creating a script that would launch procmon.exe silently via the task scheduler so I could monitor excel.exe when it saved any file ending in .csv, .xls or .xlsx. This went on for several hours, but I was not making any progress, even switching over to using Continue reading "If At First You Don t Succeed: Try 3 Different AIs"
Iodd recently released the iodd MINI Pro. The new features over the original iodd MINI are that it can now use a USB-C to USB 3.0 A cable (verus Micro B cable to USB 3.0 A cable) and a M.2 2280 SATA3 SSD (vs the 2242 SSD on the iodd MINI). Unforunately, it does not Continue reading "iodd MINI Pro Review"
This blog was started on July 23, 2005 and today marks the 20 year anniversary of this blog. In May of 2022, I decided to archive any posts before the year 2015 as they were quite dated. Making universal images for Windows 2000 and XP? Yeah, I don t think anyone is interested in that anymore. Continue reading "20 years of Blogging"
It was July 2000 when I got RoadRunner cable Internet from Time Warner Cable. For years, I had waited for high speed Internet in Milwaukee, WI being held hostage on a 56K modem dial-up service. ExecPC was the ISP for southeastern Wisconsin and around 1999/2000, they were offering ISDN 128K, but not DSL. I was Continue reading "Goodbye Spectrum Cable Internet, Hello AT T Fiber"
This one drove me a bit crazy I must admit. I had a GPO that would install an MSI file when scoped to a computer account. However, recently, it stopped working. When I ran rsop.msc and looked at the error tab, it kept stating Software Installation did not complete policy processing because a system restart Continue reading "Case of the Non-Functioning Software Install Group Policy Object (GPO)"